Roy H. Taylor began his aviation career in July 1951 when he joined the United States Air Force to train pilots and gunners during the Korean War era. He served as an instructor on aircraft fire‑control systems for the B‑29 bomber and jet fighter models, including the F‑86D and the F‑89D and F‑89H, gaining hands‑on experience with solid‑propellant rocket and missile systems.

After his Air Force service, Roy joined Northrop Aircraft as a crew chief, where he aligned and tested F‑89D and F‑89H fire‑control systems and worked directly with Northrop test pilots. Roy later moved to the Lockheed Missile and Space Corporation in Sunnyvale, California, contributing to the development of a one‑fifth scale model of the Polaris missile which later evolved into a submarine missile program. His responsibilities included work on beacon and azimuth equipment and antenna VSWR calibration.

When Lockheed began the Agena program at Cape Kennedy, Roy relocated to the Cocoa Beach area to join the launch start‑up team. He served as Lead Electrical Engineer on the Agena launch team, supporting operations across launch complexes 12, 13, and 14 and helping prepare those complexes for a range of classified space missions, including the John Glenn flight. 

After leaving the space program, Roy designed energy‑conservation retrofits for municipal buildings in Union City, California while continuing to develop inventions. His patents include a series of utility patents for a propellant‑driven golf club and, most recently, a utility provisional patent filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the Passenger Aircraft Cabin Recovery System (PACRS). Roy advances the PACRS concept through RHT LLC, applying decades of aerospace engineering and launch‑system experience to this life saving safety innovation.